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Kennedy supported a coup in South Vietnam.
Advisers to US President Lyndon Johnson had specific advice to improve anti-Communist prospects in South Vietnam. Among these were more air strikes against the North as a lever to push Saigon leaders to create political stability in the South. This would also be a lever to increase the size of the South's army and to repress dissident students and Buddhist monks.
Making alternative courses of actions would involve planning, research and dedication. There are many alternative courses of action for most everything in life.
Bombing North Vietnam
The Domino Theory was the driving force behind the Kennedy administrations actions in Vietnam.
Bombing North Vietnam
The New York Times published the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Department of Defense study revealing the United States government's true intentions and actions during the Vietnam War. The publication of these documents in 1971 by the Times and other newspapers contributed to public skepticism about government actions and policies regarding the war.
North & South Vietnam, since all the bombs were falling on them.
No, they were "police actions".
They funded the war.
Australia mirrored US actions.
The actions of France inspired Ho Chi Minh to challenge their authority in Vietnam. Their treatment of Vietnam as a colonial power combined with Ho Chi Minh's western education to create a powerful anti-imperial leader who succeeded in ending European control of Vietnam.